Here's a very low altitude jet application:
Looks like a B-47 crashed into a train ...
I might decline to drive the one below:
I've seen the checklist for an F-104's Emergency Procedures. Fully 75% of them end with the word "Eject!"
Here's a short list of notable uncontained engine failure incidents:
1) Qantas Flight 32: an Airbus A380 flying from London Heathrow to Sydney (via Singapore) in 2010 had an uncontained failure in a Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine. The failure was found to have been caused by a misaligned counter bore within a stub oil pipe leading to a fatigue fracture. This in turn led to an oil leakage followed by an oil fire in the engine. The fire led to the release of the Intermediate Pressure Turbine (IPT) disc.
2) Delta Air Lines Flight 1288: a McDonnell Douglas MD-88 flying from Pensacola, Florida to Atlanta in 1996 had a cracked compressor rotor hub failure on one of its Pratt Whitney JT8D-219 engines. 2 died.
3) United Airlines Flight 232: a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 flying from Denver to Chicago in 1989. The failure of the rear General Electric CF6-6 engine caused the loss of all hydraulics forcing the pilots to attempt a landing using differential thrust. 111 fatalities. Prior to the United 232 crash, the probability of a simultaneous failure of all three hydraulic systems was considered as high as a billion-to-one. However, the statistical models used to come up with this figure did not account for the fact that the number-two engine was mounted at the tail close to all the hydraulic lines, nor the possibility that an engine failure would release many fragments in many directions. Since then, more modern aircraft engine designs have focused on keeping shrapnel from penetrating the cowling or ductwork, and have increasingly utilized high-strength composite materials to achieve the required penetration resistance while keeping the weight low.
4) Cameroon Airlines Flight 786: a Boeing 737 flying between Douala and Garoua,Cameroon in 1984 had a failure of a Pratt Whitney JT8D-15 engine. 2 people died.
5) Two LOT Polish Airlines flights, both Ilyushin Il-62s, suffered catastrophic uncontained engine failures in the 1980s. The first was in 1980 on LOT Flight 7 where flight controls were destroyed, killing all 87 on board. In 1987, on LOT Flight 5055, the aircraft's inner left (#2) engine, damaged the outer left (#1) engine, setting both on fire and causing in-flight break up, killing all 183 people on board. In both cases, the turbine shaft in engine #2 disintegrated due to production defects in the engines' bearings, which were missing rollers.[5]
6) National Airlines Flight 27: a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 flying from Miami to San Francisco in 1973 had an overspeed failure of a General Electric CF6-6, resulting in one fatality.
7) British Airways Flight 2276: a Boeing 777-200ER flying from Las Vegas to London in 2015 suffered an uncontained engine failure on its #1 GE90 engine during takeoff, resulting in a large fire on its port side. The aircraft successfully aborted takeoff and the plane was evacuated with no fatalities.
But, considering the number of flights every day, this a VERY low percentage. It's probably the safest engine ever built as long as it has oil and fuel to burn. Of course, we know from Capt. Sullenberger that geese are a serious threat to commercial turbine engines in New York airspace around the Hudson River.
Fortunately the geese that perpetrated that incident will never so it again as they got sliced, diced, julienned, and fried by said turbines. So it turns out commercial turbines also function as blenders under the right circumstances, and perhaps vacuum cleaners, too, though the exhuast would likley bring down the wrath, as well as their entire apartment, of the upstairs neighbors.
